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Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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People go away and they don't come back.
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Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
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If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
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If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
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Tell that to the BTK killer,” I said. “He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too
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Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.
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A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.
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Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself. Why? I said. If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.
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I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
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one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.
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Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
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Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
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I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.
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Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.
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being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.
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Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
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There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be.
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Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.
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It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.
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trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.
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